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capacity4dev.eu
Capacity Development and Knowledge sharing
In DG EuropeAid
What is capacity4dev?
• EuropeAid's “Capacity Development through knowledge sharing and
collaboration” platform
• Supports daily work and cross learning within the organisation,
increasing our capacity to deliver.
– Delegations openly reflecting and sharing operational lessons
from successful projects
– Used to explain our tools and systems to HQ, EUD, partners
– Institutional memory, consolidate knowledge now scattered
• Promotes Capacity Development as a priority of our cooperation
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Why capacity4dev?
Capacity Development Opportunities:
Improve the Quality of Aid and increase our impact in terms of
Capacity Development as a major cross cutting issue of Development
Effectiveness
Help use knowledge for Development: Capacity4dev as a knowledge
hub for the development community
“Knowledge and information can contribute to our development
objectives and benefit our partner countries as much as our money does
today.”
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Purpose: Capacity Development and consolidation of
thematic expertise
•Support the daily work of distributed teams and Thematic
Networks and Communities of Practice including both EC /
EEAS staff and partners across the globe.
•Link Internal with External expertise and enable cross learning
•Build bridges across thematic expertise silos
•Support good practice and innovation exchange / help identify
specialists
•Build Thematic Institutional Memory: Transfer and
consolidate knowledge online before it gets lost : too much
Info is unshared and hidden / fragmented
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capacity4dev.eu:
•Magazine, high value editorials with
video interviews and training videos
•Thematic entry points: Topics
•Members / community
•Contents suggestions according your
preferences
•Peer Support – Questions and Answer
tool
•Vacancies
•Search and filtering tools…
And…
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Online Groups,
collaborative
environment offering:
Document Library +
categories and Tags to
help organize content
Blog: Information News
and discussion space
Events: post group
meetings or events
Surveys tool
E-Meetings – Group
chat
Members profile
rooster and PM
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What can I do?
•Write Blog Posts
•Upload Documents
•Add Events
•Add Minisite Page
And…
Invite Others
http://capacity4dev.eu/public-energy
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You are invited to join the community!
1. Become a member of capacity4dev: As
simple as hitting “Join Now” on the home
page and filling in the form.
2.
to the Energy Group
3. Start contributing and sharing your own
knowledge and experience…
http://capacity4dev.eu/public-energy
Its success will depend on your participation!
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Fast facts : demographics
April 2012: Over 4400Members
registered
members
of capacity4dev.eu
- Nov 2011 (development practitioners)
60,000+ unique visitors from more than 5000 cities in 208 countries/territories.
8%
6%
4%
44%
10%
12%
16%
European Institutions
Private Sector
Civil Society / NGO
Government
International Organization
Academic
Other
Bring together professionals from all continents, from as far as Republic of Nauru, Kiribati or Marshal Isl.
Organisations represented through members registered (indicative)
International Organisations
UN, UNDP, UNWFP, UNHCR, UNCTD, UNIDO, UNCCD, UN-HABITAT, UNICEF, UNESCO, UN-Women, UN University, UNWTO, UNEPWCMC, UNITAR, World Bank, World Bank Institute, OECD, OSCE, CoE, IMF, ILO, PAHO/WHO, FAO, International Center Migration Policy
Development, EU/ACP, African CD Foundation, African Union Commission, Red Cross EU Office, ACP Secretariat, Asian Development Bank,
African Development Bank, IOM European Consultants Organisation, and many more
National Level:
GIZ(DE), AFD(F), ADA(AT), SAIDC/AECID(ES), DFID(UK), BDA/BTC(B), SNV(NL), DANIDA(DK), SIDA(S), LuxDEV(L), Slovak AIDC(SK), IPAD
(PT), IDC (IT) Irish AID (IE) Swiss DC, CIDA(CA), AUSAID(AU), MFAs (almost All EU MS, many non EU), Danish Red Cross, Terre des Hommes
Netherlands, ENA(FR), INSEAD(FR) and many more
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Fast facts: high value community & content
• 27 Topic overview pages: compilation of all relevant content per topic
• 8 Region overview Pages: compilation of all relevant content per Region
• 250+ high value Editorials, 200+ videos: Professional Editorial Team
(journalists) and Video production.
Sharing good practices
How to improve quality
How to improve impact
Share on innovative EU-funded projects
• 50+ Online Groups (such as Energy)
Support the day to day work of real life Working Groups
Support policy / strategy formulation and implementation
• 1790+ Documents online
• 660+ Blog posts
• 150+ Events
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We are here to help you come on-board!
Contact us on capacity4dev
www.capacity4dev.eu/contact
[email protected]
Look for help in www.capacity4dev.eu/help
Support Team:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Thank You